2 volumes (xxx, 886 pages) : 29 cm

"The first comprehensive resource on this important topic, this set covers the origins of homelessness, current research, and strategies for its prevention. The contributors represent such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, medicine, and social work. Articles address homelessness in eight major American cities and more than 30 cities and nations around the world. Adding depth are bibliographies, a directory of street newspapers, a filmography, and more than 20 primary-source documents offering historical and contemporary perspectives."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005

A readerʼs guide is provided to assist readers in locating entries on related topics. It classifies entries into 14 general categories: Causes, Cities, Demography and Characteristics, Health issues, History, Housing, Legal issues, Advocacy and policy, Lifestyle issues, Organizations, Perceptions of homelessness, Populations, Research, Service systems and settings, World perspectives and issues

"A Berkshire Reference Work."

"A Sage Reference Publication."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 765-822) and index

Abeyance Theory -- Africa -- African-Americans -- Alcohol and Drugs -- Almshouses -- American Bar Association -- Asia -- Assertive Community Treatment -- Association of Gospel Rescue Missions -- Australia -- Autobiography and Memoir, Contemporary Homeless -- Bangladesh -- Bombay -- Boston -- Bowery -- Brazil -- Calcutta -- Canada -- Case Management -- Causes of Homelessness: Overview -- Chicago Skid Row -- Child Care -- Child Support -- Children -- Cinema -- Continuum of Care -- Copenhagen -- Corporation for Supportive Housing -- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Criminal Activity and Policing -- Cuba -- Dallas -- Deindustrialization -- Deinstitutionalization -- Denmark -- Disorders and Health Problems -- Egypt -- Encampments, Urban -- Epidemiology -- Ethnography -- European Network for Housing Research -- Fair Housing Laws -- Families -- Family Separations and Reunifications -- FEANTSA -- Food Programs -- Foster Care -- France -- Gentrification -- Germany -- Goodwill Industries International -- Great Depression -- Harm Reduction -- Health Care -- Hidden Homelessness -- History of Homelessness -- HIV and AIDS -- Homeless Assistance Services and Networks -- Homeless Court Program -- Homeless International -- Homeless Organizing -- Homeless Populations -- Homelessness, Course of -- Homelessness, Definition and Estimates of -- Homelessness, International Perspectives on -- Homelessness, Patterns of -- Homelessness, Rural -- Homelessness, Suburban -- Homelessness, Urban -- Housing -- Housing, Affordable -- Housing, Transitional -- Housing and Homelessness in Developing Nations -- Housing First Approach

Houston -- Hunger and Nutrition -- Images of Homelessness in Contemporary Documentary Film -- Images of Homelessness in Narrative Film -- Images of Homelessness in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century America -- Images of Homelessness in the Media -- Indonesia -- International Network of Street Newspapers -- International Union of Tenants -- Interventions, Clinical -- Interventions, Housing -- Italy -- Japan -- Latin America -- Latinos -- Latinas -- Legal Advocacy -- Legislation, Programs and Policies, U.S. Federal -- Libraries: Issues in Serving the Homelessness -- Liminality -- Literature on Homelessness -- Literature, Hobo and Tramp -- London -- Los Angeles -- Low-Income Housing -- Marginality -- Media -- Men -- Mental Health system -- Mental Illness and Health -- Minneapolis and St. Paul -- Mobility -- Montreal -- Mumbai -- Municipal Lodging Houses -- Nairobi -- National Alliance to End Homelessness -- National Center on Family Homelessness -- National Coalition for the Homeless -- National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness -- Netherlands -- New York City -- Nigeria -- Older Homelessness Persons -- Outreach -- Panhandling -- Parenting -- Paris -- Philadelphia -- Photography -- Poorhouses -- Poverty -- Prevention of Homelessness -- Program Evaluation Research -- Prostitution -- Public Opinion -- Religion -- Research on Homelessness -- Russia -- Safe Havens -- Salvation Army -- Self-Help Housing -- Service Integration -- Service Utilization Research

Shelters -- Single-Room Occupancy Hotels -- Skid Row Culture and History -- Social Support -- Social Welfare Policy and Income Maintenance -- Soup Kitchens -- South Africa -- Spain -- St. Louis -- Street Life -- Street Newspapers -- Street Youth and Violence -- Stressful Life Events -- Survival Strategies -- Sweden -- Sydney -- Tokyo -- Toronto -- Trauma and Victimization -- UN-HABITAT -- United Kingdom, Rural -- Urban Institute -- Vagrancy -- Veterans -- Washington, D.C. -- Wilder Research Center -- Women -- Work on the Streets -- Workhouses -- Youth, Homeless -- Zimbabwe

1 volume ; 4 volumes cm

Includes bibliographical references

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